Steve Coppell interview in Daily Mail

[JC]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/a ... ge_id=1779


Coppell continues to walk the talk
By STEVE CURRY

Last updated at 17:28pm on 26th November 2006
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An audience with Steve Coppell is more like a tutorial from a University lecturer than a press conference with a football manager, his conversation rather more lucid than the flow of his team’s football.

He peppers his conversation with words like "incongruent" and "relevance" and says "the law is undoubtedly an ass" even when it benefits his own team. He shuns the dressing room clichés that so bedevil the dialogue of many of his colleagues.

As manager of a team operating some way short of the elite, he still manages to be level on points with Arsenal, a dozen ahead of the team promoted with him last May, and only two behind third-placed Bolton.

Yet neither is he a daydreamer. He knows that eventually other Premiership teams will work out the reasons for Reading’s success and the second half of this season could be tougher than the first.

“No one had background information on us when he came up,â€

[Row Z Royal]

Might I suggest that if they leave the talking to Coppell, they may have a good chance of getting their man.

Because they will be confused into signing a contract?

[When Hicks went up...]

None more demonstrably than Saturday’s match-winner Kevin Doyle, plucked by Coppell from non-league football in much the same way he unearthed Ian Wright from the amateur ranks all those years ago at Crystal Palace.

Someone better tell Cork City they've been relegated...

[Row Z Royal]

None more demonstrably than Saturday’s match-winner Kevin Doyle, plucked by Coppell from non-league football in much the same way he unearthed Ian Wright from the amateur ranks all those years ago at Crystal Palace.

Someone better tell Cork City they've been relegated...

To be fair, it's not The Football Leauge.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

None more demonstrably than Saturday’s match-winner Kevin Doyle, plucked by Coppell from non-league football in much the same way he unearthed Ian Wright from the amateur ranks all those years ago at Crystal Palace.

Someone better tell Cork City they've been relegated...

To be fair, it's not The Football Leauge.

I think cork are rather better than any team in the conference though.

[bedfordroyal]

roy keane,dennis irwin and joe gamble from cork;and gamble has been one of there players of the season shame he left us may have been a star .

[DaveM]

For Coppell, too, the hunt is on to strengthen and he said: "For us to be active in the market there are four boxes that have to be ticked. 1) Is he available?; 2) Can we afford him?; 3) Can we pay his wages?; 4) Most important - do they want to come to Reading?

Sounds like Coppell has been reading UR&G

[Cookie]

He shuns the dressing room clichés that so bedevil the dialogue of many of his colleagues.

Gerard Houllier: 'I don't know how people can say my team are not winners. We have come 4th,3rd and 2nd in the last three years...'

Kenny Dalglish: "You cant replace a Michael Owen with a Michael Owen. Because what you need is a Michael Owen."

Big Ron: After all it's still the right thing to do to 'take each game as it comes' and relegation games against near rivals will always be '6 pointers'.

and from Terry McDermott: "No one hands you cups on a plate"

BOOM BOOM !

[comeonthebiscuitmen]

None more demonstrably than Saturday’s match-winner Kevin Doyle, plucked by Coppell from non-league football in much the same way he unearthed Ian Wright from the amateur ranks all those years ago at Crystal Palace.

Someone better tell Cork City they've been relegated...

To be fair, it's not The Football Leauge.

To be fair Cork won their league and Doyle got a medal.

[Silver Fox]

None more demonstrably than Saturday’s match-winner Kevin Doyle, plucked by Coppell from non-league football in much the same way he unearthed Ian Wright from the amateur ranks all those years ago at Crystal Palace.

Someone better tell Cork City they've been relegated...

To be fair, it's not The Football Leauge.

Nor is the Premiership